Preliminary Program Nordic Labour History Conference

Conference, 28-30 November, 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland

Preliminary Conference Program

The topic of this three-day history conference will be Nordic Labour, broadly defined, including the history of work, history of workers and the history of labour movements. The aim is to bring together scholars and students who specialize in different areas of Nordic labour history to discuss findings from a Nordic comparative perspective, as well as to add a global perspective.

Panels will cover the following themes:

  • Social strikes and conflicts
  • Riots, uprising, revolts
  • Medieval labour, typical/untypical labour such as the military, sex workers, domestic workers
  • Flexibility, precarious employment
  • Migration
  • Literature and labour
  • The welfare state and the history of the Nordic model
  • Historiography, and working class culture, consumption and leisure time

PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

A Preliminary Conference Program is available here.

CONFERENCE FEE

There will be a conference fee of 23.000 ISK. To pay the conference fee follow this link.

The conference fee can be waived for participants who are MA students. If this applies to you please send an email to info@nordiclabourhistory.org with the subject: MA student registration. Please include your full name and institution in the email.

 

http://www.nordiclabourhistory.org/preliminary-conference-program/

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